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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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